Build

This section describes how you can get kde to compile so that you can log in graphically (using kdm, the KDE display manager) and call konqueror (contained in KDEBASE, KDE's base package).

kdesupport

You can install kdesupport and its dependencies from SUSE by adding the KDE:KDE4 repository from
the openSUSE Build Service to your installation sources. For openSUSE 11.4 add this Repository to your Install Source (Yast)

Please remember to skip any instructions from Getting_Started/Build that refer to kdesupport. Start to compile with kdelibs.

Using openSUSE Unstable Repositories

openSUSE, via its Build Service, provides a so-called unstable repository which contains weekly snapshots from KDE SVN trunk. These allow you to run a system install of unstable, but does not allow you to keep a stable system install while testing unstable in parallel.

Requirements

You need a supported openSUSE version, that is, at the time of writing, openSUSE 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 or openSUSE Factory (the always-on-development branch of openSUSE).

Installing packages from the unstable repository

You can either use the one-click-install, which can provide pre-arranged sets of packages, namely the basic system (KDE4-BASIS), games (KDE4-GAMES), or a complete development setup (KDE4-DEVEL), or add the repository manually and perform an installation from the command line.

Method 1: one click install

Depending on the openSUSE version use, there are different one-click installs:

Method 2: Addition of the repository

where YOUR_SUSE_VERSION is either openSUSE_10.3, openSUSE_11.0, openSUSE_11.1, or openSUSE_Factory depending on what you are running.

After that, refresh the package index and update the packages to the unstable version:

zypper ref && zypper up

Post-installation steps

The Desktop repository does not include everything from KDE: for example, Amarok 2 is not present there. To add even more applications, including extragear ones, you need to use the KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Extra_Apps repository.